Martin Heidegger's overt alliance with the Nazis and the specific
relation between this alliance and his philosophical thought--the
degree to which his concepts are linked to a thoroughly
disreputable set of political beliefs--have been the topic of a
storm of recent debate. Written ten years before this debate, this
study by France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist is both
a precursor of that debate and an analysis of the institutional
mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse.
Though Heidegger is aware of and acknowledges the legitimacy of
purely philosophical issues (in his references to canonic authors,
traditional problems, and respect for academic taboos), Bourdieu
points out the complexity and abstraction of Heidegger's
philosophical discourse stems from its situation in the cultural
field, where two social and intellectual dimensions--political
thought and academic thought--intersect.
Bourdieu concludes by suggesting that Heidegger should not be
considered as a Nazi ideologist, that there is no place in
Heidegger's philosophical ideas for a racist conception of the
human being. Rather, he sees Heidegger's thought as a structural
equivalent in the field of philosophy of the "conservative
revolution," of which Nazism is but one manifestation.
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